PAGET MURDER TRIAL.
Per Press Association. Wellington, May 20. The trial of Claude Paget, charged with the murder of Eleanor Pearl Axup on February 12, was commenced to-duy before Mr. justice Cooper. Paget pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr. T. M. Wilford. Mr. Myers appeared for the Crown. The general circumstances of this case were fully published at the time of its occurrence. The deceased girl who was 17 years of age, and Paget had been on friendly terms for some months, and had been in the habit of walking out together. He had asked her father for the girl in marriage, but had been refused on the ground of her tender years. On the evening of February 11 Paget visited the house occupied by the girl's parents, being then, according to the mother, under the influence of drink. He said he was going away next day to San Francisco, and bade them good-bye. Early next morning, however, he visited the house again, and on the girl coming downstairs followed her into the diningroom. A minute or two afterwards shots were heard, and on Mrs. Axup rushing into the room, she found the girl lying on the door dead, with a bullet wound in the neck, and the man unconscious, It was alleged that on the previous day prisoner had purchased the revolver and cartridges found in his possession at an ironmonger's iu the city. The evidence of the girl's mother and the cook nt the house was taken to-day, and the further heaving was adjourned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 May 1907, Page 2
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258PAGET MURDER TRIAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 May 1907, Page 2
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